| quit | 1. To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate. "To quit you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?" (Wake) 2. To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit. "There may no gold them quyte." (Chaucer) "God will relent, and quit thee all his debt." (Milton) 3. To discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and satisfy, as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of; to requite; to repay. "The blissful martyr quyte you your meed." (Chaucer) "Enkindle all the sparks of nature To quit this horrid act." (Shak) "Before that judge that quits each soul his hire." (Fairfax) 4. To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; used reflexively. "Be strong, and quit yourselves like men." (I Sam. Iv. 9) "Samson hath guit himself Like Samson." (Milton) 5. To carry through; to go through to the end. "Never worthy prince a day did quit With greater hazard and with more renown." (Daniel) 6. To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to quit jesting. "Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth for appearance." (Locke) To quit cost, to pay; to reimburse. To quit scores, to make even; to clear mutually from demands. "Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it?" (South) Synonym: To leave, relinquish, resign, abandon, forsake, surrender, discharge, requite. Quit, Leave. Leave is a general term, signifying merely an act of departure; quit implies a going without intention of return, a final and absolute abandonment. Origin: OE. Quiten, OF. Quiter, quitier, cuitier, F. Quitter, to acquit, quit, LL. Quietare, fr. L. Quietare to calm, to quiet, fr. Quietus quiet. See Quiet, and cf. Quit, Quite, Acquit, Requite. <ornithology> Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| quitch | 1. <botany> Same as Quitch grass. 2. Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil. "To pick the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him." (Tennyson). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quitch grass | <botany> A perennial grass (Agropyrum repens) having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. Origin: Properly quick grass, being probably so called from its vigorous growth, or from its tenacity of life. See Quick, and cf. Couch grass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quittor | <veterinary> A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone. Origin: Perhaps for quitture. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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A chronic abscess in the hoof, caused by a bruise or prick of the sole, or from calk of one foot being pressed into the coronet of the other, confined pus from suppuration, corn, etc. [Kendall1881]
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[from the Old French quitture, discharge]: Necrosis of the lateral cartilages due to infection. Characterized by severe lameness and puss discharge.
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A chronic, purulent, inflammatory swelling of the lateral cartilage resulting in intermittent subcoronary abscesses is called quitter. The condition may be caused by a trauma, puncture, bruise, or laceration near the coronary band.
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| quit | give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope |
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| quit | go away or leave |
| quit | turn away from |
| quit | give up or retire from a position |
| quit | put an end to a state or an activity |
| quit | (usually followed by `of') released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty) |
| quit | act of transferring a title or right or claim to another |
| quit | document transferring title or right or claim to another |
| quit | document transferring title or right or claim to another |
| quit | to the greatest extent |
| quit | to a degree (not used with a negative) |
| quit | of an unusually noticeable or exceptional or remarkable kind (not used with a negative) |
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